I feel that they might be a little bit late.
Since the Linux community's "Aha!" moment regarding the usability of Desktop apps, Transmission has really taken off.
Even uTorrent's web interface is old news compared to Transmission's web interface.
There are still private trackers around disallowing transmission (heck - every client but uTorrent), so this might be a valid reason to go with a future utorrent for Linux release.
OTOH, these same trackers are insisting on utorrent for windows anyways and are also disallowing utorrent for the Mac, so my point might be moot
Because the specific client might put unnecessary load on the tracker, or might falsify upload/download ratio to get site karma. That or the admins like making arbitrary decisions.
Because it really is worth repeating - the Transmission web interface is pretty awesome.
Still, I think this is good news. There was a time I would have jumped at a uTorrent Linux client - and I know I'd still try it out. Transmission has been pretty good to me though.
In my experience, uTorrent/mac tends to have better performances than Transmission/mac.
Still looks and feels pretty not nice (though it has much improved since the early days), so I'm staying with Transmission for now.
Also, uTorrent is much lighter on disk (uTorrent.app 4MB, Transmission.app 22.3MB) and a bit lighter on memory (private/real/virtual 7.9/24.5/50.9 vs 14.4/25.9/61.1 unloaded in both cases)
Being closed source plus the half-hearted job and lip service to support means bad experience for users. And users are not masochists, so they will use whatever works better.
These 3254 people voting for the Linux client might encompass the whole of the future user base of the client.
Linux users traditionally have been more involved in a community, so it's entirely conceivable that next to 100% of potential uTorrent Linux users have taken the opportunity to vote whereas only a fraction of a percent of utorrent's total user base voted for the second highest rated feature.
I would probably not use a poll like this to direct the future planning of my product.
In that case, it is already pretty remarkable that 3254 from a group of people who currently can't even use your product want it to be developed for them. If that happened to a product I were making, I sure as hell would begin targeting that platform.
Generally yes. But knowing the Linux community (and being part of it), I know that there is usually some drive convincing people to vote for linux support of a product despite not really wanting to use the final thing.
I can imagine forum posts like "hey - uTorrent is asking for ideas for the future. Click here to support my proposal to support Linux". Knowing the community, I know that many people (myself included at times) would go over there and vote without even the slightest intention of running the final product. Ever.
I would just keep that in mind before making a decision. Be aware of the community that your votes are coming from
It's 1300 people, not 3254 people. The way the idea bank works is that when you make a new account you get 10 votes, and can allocate up to three of them per idea, which is what happened here.
I've just tried Transmission, and it is quite slick, but I'd like to chime in with two of my favorites: the enhanced version of CTorrent (http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/), a handy command-line client, and btpd, the BitTorrent Protocol Daemon (http://www.murmeldjur.se/btpd/), a client designed to run in the background.
I'm also fond of the original, reference versions of BitTorrent written in Python, but they can be a PITA to install from source because of dependencies.
not sure whether you knew it or not - but peer id spoofing (as uTorrent) was added because it was being banned on several trackers.
Take a look at the bug to see a few examples
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qbittorrent/+bug/497450
I think most private trackers allow Ktorrent and Transmission as they are considered defacto.
The original author was looking forward to selling it. He sold it to BitTorrent. BitTorrent is looking forward to selling uTorrent to media companies for swarm-based content distribution.
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Although - competition is always good.
OTOH, these same trackers are insisting on utorrent for windows anyways and are also disallowing utorrent for the Mac, so my point might be moot
Still, I think this is good news. There was a time I would have jumped at a uTorrent Linux client - and I know I'd still try it out. Transmission has been pretty good to me though.
Still looks and feels pretty not nice (though it has much improved since the early days), so I'm staying with Transmission for now.
Also, uTorrent is much lighter on disk (uTorrent.app 4MB, Transmission.app 22.3MB) and a bit lighter on memory (private/real/virtual 7.9/24.5/50.9 vs 14.4/25.9/61.1 unloaded in both cases)
Being closed source plus the half-hearted job and lip service to support means bad experience for users. And users are not masochists, so they will use whatever works better.
In this case, Transmission.
http://utorrentideas.uservoice.com/forums/47263-torrent-for-...
Linux users traditionally have been more involved in a community, so it's entirely conceivable that next to 100% of potential uTorrent Linux users have taken the opportunity to vote whereas only a fraction of a percent of utorrent's total user base voted for the second highest rated feature.
I would probably not use a poll like this to direct the future planning of my product.
That said, though, you're probably right. Internet polls are easily manipulated by e.g. social news sites with dedicated target audiences.
I can imagine forum posts like "hey - uTorrent is asking for ideas for the future. Click here to support my proposal to support Linux". Knowing the community, I know that many people (myself included at times) would go over there and vote without even the slightest intention of running the final product. Ever.
I would just keep that in mind before making a decision. Be aware of the community that your votes are coming from
I'm also fond of the original, reference versions of BitTorrent written in Python, but they can be a PITA to install from source because of dependencies.
I like it for its excellent torrent search.
It is available in more than 25 languages and is also available as a Mac client.
Oh and its open source.
I think most private trackers allow Ktorrent and Transmission as they are considered defacto.
Does anybody knows why? As far as I know, µtorrent is free of charge, so I don't see how locking the sources could be an asset.